Eastern Standard Time

English

Timezones in the Western Hemisphere; the Eastern Timezone is the pink portion of North America on the right part of the map.

Proper noun

Eastern Standard Time

1. The time of day in the time zone that encompasses the eastern part of the Midwest and the East Coast of the United States, most of Ontario and Quebec and the eastern third of Nunavut in Canada from the first Sunday of November to the second Sunday of March, as well as Manitoba, northwestern Ontario and Southampton Island in Nunavut year-round; it is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-5).

   Synonyms: Eastern Standard Time Zone, Eastern Time Zone

Synonyms

• EST (abbreviation)

Related terms

• Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
• Eastern Time
• Eastern Timezone

Translations

time zone

• French: heure normale de l'est f
• Japanese: 東部標準時 (とうぶひょうじゅんじ, Tōbu Hyōjunji)
• Malay: Waktu Piawai Timur
• Spanish: horario del este m

See also

• Eastern Standard Time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Alaska Standard Time
• Atlantic Standard Time
• Central Standard Time
• Greenland Standard Time
• Hawaii Standard Time
• Mountain Standard Time
• Newfoundland Standard Time
• Pacific Standard Time